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Oh, believe me, I have ranted plenty about Medicare/Medicaid and medical costs in general. Most of hour health care costs would go away if we lived healthier lifestyles.
If it didn't rain so much. we wouldn't have all this flooding. Of course, everybody already knows that, so simply proclaiming it over and over again isn't likely to do very much good.
Every national health care system has a responsibility to deal with the range of diseases and conditions that it is in fact confronted with. Telling people to eat healthier diets and get more exercise does not mean that you have done your job and can go home now. Health care is about both prevention and cure.
Last edited by Major Barbara; 07-14-2015 at 05:25 AM..
But its all about being able to service that debt and even less risk that means lower cost borrowing. When you have a country where most are dependent on a fewer and fewer it has bad ending at some point.
The problem is the medical industry is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too profit driving. Very few who work in medical fields actually want to make peoples lives better as it would likely cut into their fat paycheck.
Despite the nonsensical saying, a man CAN serve two masters. And even more than that. Almost everyone in fact does so.
Japan is the most indebted country in the developed world, but everybody keeps lending them money? Everybody knowns that Japan is a sure bet. Just the same with US.
Until recently, Japan ran consistent trade surpluses, meaning that even significant borrowing could all be done internally. The people who keep lending to Japan are mostly Japanese.
Since WWII, the strength of the US economy has been used to leverage growth in other economies. This leads to trade deficits that leave an excess of dollars abroad. All that the holders can do with them is invest them in something dollar-denominated. Hence we are easily able to borrow internationally.
Last edited by Major Barbara; 07-14-2015 at 05:32 AM..
The sky is falling, the sky if falling! As much as the Obama haters want people to think we are in some big trouble, we aren't. The US is thriving! Get us out of wars and our country can actually do well on a global scale. We have nothing in common with Greece. Clearly you aren't familiar with Greece in the least. They are never on time and really work at a different rate than the US folks. We work our tails off over here to have more cup holders and a flat screen.
If it didn't rain so much. we wouldn't have all this flooding. Of course, everybody already knows that, so simply proclaiming it over and over again isn't likely to do very much good.
Every national health care system has a responsibility to deal with the range of diseases and conditions that it is in fact confronted with. Telling people to eat healthier diets and get more exercise does not mean that you have done your job and can go home now. Health care is about both prevention and cure.
Most of our health care costs would go away if we didn't get old!
The problem is the medical industry is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too profit driving. Very few who work in medical fields actually want to make peoples lives better as it would likely cut into their fat paycheck.
Plenty of us went into medicine to help people. We used to know that we would all make a good living. That was a given. Today it is not so easily carved in stone. I had not had a raise since '88! One has to be realistic, as no one is going to practice medicine at a significant loss. Not with all the time, stress, effort and accelerating overheads required. Altruism can only go so far. Bidness is still bidness!
By the way, my daughter is a second year medical resident doc at your OHSU!
Any debt not purchased as securities artificially inflates the currency.
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Most of hour health care costs would go away if we lived healthier lifestyles.
The only way to coerce people into healthier life-styles is to make them pay.
If you had real true bona fide insurance, instead of fee-for-service, then your insurance costs would be based on actuarial science, but still driven by your monopoly medical care system until you resolve that problem.
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Very few who work in medical fields actually want to make peoples lives better as it would likely cut into their fat paycheck.
Then take out your own gall bladder.
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What exactly is "the US currency game?" The dollar as you should know does not have any sort of official exclusivity. It has become the largest exchange/reserve currency not because of any kind of gamesmanship, ...
It became exclusive precisely due to gamesmanship.
The US and Britain conspired through the BIS to reject the ascension of East Bloc currencies. That means none of the East Bloc States, including Russia (Soviet Union) were able to trade globally using their own currencies. Instead, the were forced to buy hard currencies like US Dollars to conduct foreign trade.
You might want to familiarize yourself with the Bretton Woods Agreement, because that is how the US Dollar became the de facto international reserve currency and the de facto international currency of trade.
Here's an updated graph to show how awesome I am....
Just wait until Korea, China and Japan have a unified currency.
Gloating...
Some will use any situation at all as an excuse to raise the same old phony drumbeat for neanderthal social policies. More evidence here for the "Southernomics" thread...
Income must be produced to be distributed. Is recognizing that the producers deserve the fruits of their labor "Neanderthal"?
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